the crude unbleached state in New Brunswick, was shown
at the Great Exhibition.

Vegetable wax was also sent from Shanghae, in China; from St. Domingo,
in the northern parts of which the plant is indigenous; and a
remarkable specimen from Japan. This substance, from its high melting
point and other physical characteristics, has of late attracted a good
deal of attention; it is admirably suited as a material for the
manufacture of candles.

At a meeting of the Central Board, at Cape Town, in March, 1853, the
members voted about L300, to employ some 20 or 30 men, in gathering
berries from the Downs, and making wax during the winter months, that
is, from the beginning of May to the end of September. The wax fetches
a good price in the Cape market.

In the annual report of the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society,
in May, 1853, a very fine sample of myrtle, or terry wax, grown on
the Cape Flats, was exhibited by Mr. Feeny, Superintendent of the
Road Plantation, by direction of the Commissioners of the Central
Road Board, in different stages of purification, from green to
white, as also some candles; and it being conceived by the meeting
that this article might ultimately become one of considerable
importance for purposes of export, a letter of thanks was addressed
to Mr. Feeny; and Nathaniel Day, the constable who assisted him, was
presented with the sum of L5, as a remuneration for his trouble in
assisting to purify and prepare the wax. On reference to the juror's
report on the Great Exhibition, it will be gratifying to find that
the berry wax, forwarded by this Society, had attracted peculiar
notice, and a prize medal been awarded for it; the following
reference is therein made to it: "some fine specimens of myrtle or
berry wax, from the Cape of Good Hope, are exhibited by J.
Lindenberg, of Worcester. This is an excellent material for the
manufacture of candles, when employed in conjunction with other
solid fats. The jury awarded a prize medal for these specimens."

Your Committee would suggest every possible attention being drawn to
this subject, in which they are gratified to state, the
Commissioners of the Central Road Board have evinced a readiness to
co-operate, by offering to place at the Society's disposal the sum
of L10 10s., "to be given as a premium for the best information
respecting the wax berry plant, th